emerging adulthood chapter 9 week 7 Flashcards
Now the median age of marriage in Australia is ___for men and ____ years for women
31.8 , 29.8
What are the five characteristics that
distinguish emerging adulthood from other age periods
1 the age of identity explorations
2 the age of instability
3 the self-focused age
4 the age of feeling in-between
5 the age of possibilities.
ability of the body to take in
oxygen and transport it to
various organs; also called
maximum oxygen update
VO2 max
quantity of blood flow from the
heart
cardiac output
What are the main health risks in emerging adulthood.
car accidents and substance abuse
T or F Emerging adulthood is
the life stage of peak physical functioning
T
VO2 max peaks in early __
20a
Peak bone mass in reached in the ___
20s
immune system is most effective?
late teens and early 20s
University students are more than twice as
likely as other adults to report the symptoms of _________
delayed sleep phase syndrome
restraints on behaviour imposed
by social obligations and
relationships
social control
government program in which
young people obtain driving
privileges gradually, contingent
on a safe driving record, rather
than all at once
graduated driver licensing
(GDL)
consuming five or more drinks in
a row for men, four in a row for
women
binge drinking
socialising with friends without
any specific goal or activity;
includes behaviour such as riding
around in a car for fun, going to
parties, visiting friends informally
and going out with friends
unstructured socialising
according to some theorists, the
stage of cognitive development
that follows formal operations and
includes advances in pragmatism
and reflective judgment
post-formal thinking
theory of cognitive development
proposing that post-formal
thinking involves adapting logical
thinking to the practical
constraints of real-life situations
pragmatism
according to Basseches, a kind
of thinking in emerging
adulthood that involves a
growing awareness that
problems often have no clear
solution and two opposing
strategies or points of view may
each have some merit
dialectical thought
capacity to evaluate the
accuracy and logical coherence
of evidence and arguments,
theorised to develop during
emerging adulthood
reflective judgment
in Erikson’s theory, the crisis of
adolescence, with two
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alternative paths, establishing a
clear and definite identity or
experiencing role confusion,
which is a failure to form a
stable and secure identity
identity versus role confusion
model for researching Erikson’s
theory of identity development,
classifying identity development
into four categories: diffusion,
foreclosure, moratorium or
achievement
identity status model
identity with two distinct facets;
for example, one for the local
culture and one for the global
culture, or one within one’s
ethnic group and one for others
bicultural identity
belief that others possess
certain characteristics simply as
a result of being a member of a
particular group
stereotype
unmarried romantic partners
living together
cohabitation
